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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T12:47:34+00:00 2026-05-11T12:47:34+00:00

I have a bunch of office 2003 documents (.ppt, .doc, .xls) in a folder,

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I have a bunch of office 2003 documents (.ppt, .doc, .xls) in a folder, and need to extract the ‘author’ property from each file. What would be the best way to do this, is there some sort of (free) office-api I could use to read this information?

I’m using .NET 2.0

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  1. 2026-05-11T12:47:34+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 12:47 pm

    I found an article on MSDN about Dsofile.dll which seems to work as expected. Other suggestions are still welcome.

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